adding different number of columns to specific row

Hi,

I have 2 differnt csv files, i want to append the columns from book8 to book 7 based on the name column that appears in the 2 files, the name in 7 are unique but in 8 there are duplicates, so the appending columns may differ from row to another ...

is there a way to add the corresponding columns to a specific row?

i tried to append the columns in differnt ways with no success...

[M_obs,text_obs,obs]=xlsread('book7.csv');
[M_pri,text_pri,pri]=xlsread('book8.csv');
[r,c]=size(obs);

[new_matrix]=deal({});
new_matrix=obs;


    for row=(2:r) %
        z=find(strcmp(pri(row,1),obs(:,1)))
        new_matrix(row,:)=pri(z,3:end);
    end

Answer 1

[Ridwan Alam]

Try using the table join() method:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/table.join.html

Example:

M_obs = readtable('book7.csv');
M_pri = readtable('book8.csv');

[~,M_pri_idx] = unique(M_pri(:,1));
M_pri_new = M_pri(M_pri_idx,:);

new_table = join(M_obs,M_pri_new,'Keys',[1,1]);

Hope this helps.

[Shayma]

Thank you for answering ..

but the joining table in this case will have only one row for each entry because of the unique function, howevere what i want to add is-> if book8.csv has two rows of the entry "zinc543"

it will append these two rows as new columns for the entry "zinc543" in book7

this is how some rows will have more columns than others, depends on how many times it appears in the book8.csv file, is it possible?

[Ridwan Alam]

Sorry, but the question is a bit confusing.

You wrote: if book8.csv has two rows of the entry "zinc543", it will append these two rows as new columns for the entry "zinc543" in book7. Can you mention which row in book 7 and book 8 has this?

Are you trying to extend the table_book_8 with columns from table_book_7 wherever available? If yes, try this code:

A=readtable('book7.csv');
B=readtable('book8.xlsx');
zSize = [size(B,1), size(B,2) + size(A,2) - 1];
zType = ["string",repmat("doublenan",[1,zSize(2)-1])];
zNew = table('Size',zSize,'VariableTypes',zType);
zVar = {B.Properties.VariableNames{:},A.Properties.VariableNames{2:end}};
zNew.Properties.VariableNames = zVar;
zNew(:,1:width(B))=B;
for i = 1:height(zNew)
    zAind = find(table2array(A(:,1))==table2array(zNew(i,1)));
    if ~isempty(zAind)
        zNew(i,1+width(B):end) = A(zAind,2:end);
    end
end
% zNew contains all of B, and adds A to wherever available

[Shayma]

sorry, I update the files, im trying to extend book7.csv with the columns from book8.csv

ZINC02619534 in row 3 at book7 will have the columns (2:end) from book8, from the rows 3,6,7

while ZINC02638599 for example will have the columns from book8 - row 13 only because it appears only once ..